Data Validation Contracts in the South West

Data Validation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Data Validation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Validation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 162 161
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 4 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £344 £405 £245
25th Percentile £373 £442 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £300
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +58.33% -
75th Percentile £505 £488 £370
90th Percentile £531 - £447
England median daily rate £475 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.24% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.29
25th Percentile - - £18.10
Median hourly rate £10.42 £50.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -79.16% +97.41% -
75th Percentile - - £32.68
90th Percentile - - £36.57
England median hourly rate £10.42 £37.50 £32.08
% change year-on-year -72.21% +16.90% +60.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Data Validation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in the South West

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Devon - 2 - -
Somerset +5 1 £350 - 1
Wiltshire -1 1 £533 +26.79%
Data Validation
England

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Data Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blog
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Entry
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks